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Surnames of Iberian Peninsula

โ€ข version: draft โ€ข created: Mid-2024


Introduction

This post explores the most common surnames across the Iberian Peninsula through wordcloud visualisation. Region includes selected countries of Southern Europe from "UN M49, Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49)" โŽ‹. Political boundaries shown according to their "de facto" status โŽ‹. Data came from Forebears.io.


Charts and figures

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Fig 1. Surnames of Iberian Peninsula.

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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น<br>Surnames of Iberian Peninsula - Spain and Portugal<br>(raster format, .png | vincerubinetti.github.io/svg-to-png/) [method 1]
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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น<br>Surnames of Iberian Peninsula - Spain and Portugal<br>(vector format, .svg)๏ธ [method 1]

Read more about local naming customs at Familysearch.org's wiki โŽ‹: Spain Naming Customs โŽ‹, Portugal Naming Customs โŽ‹, Andorra* โŽ‹. Also, for some countries and regions you can find academic papers that explain how names were forming there.


Fig 2. Surnames of Iberian peninsula, by country.

ESP_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain ๐Ÿ”—

PRT_wordcloud (raw vector, .svg)๏ธ

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น Portugal ๐Ÿ”—

Sorry, Andorra area is less than borders dataset resolution allowed to prepare a mask. It will be added in next versions.

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Andorra ๐Ÿ”—


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